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We can bring a heart of understanding and compassion to a world that needs it so much.

Jack Kornfield

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Jack Kornfield
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 16
Author
Psychologist
Writer
the United States of America
Compassion
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Understanding
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At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?
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Weigh the true advantages of forgiveness and resentment to the heart. Then choose.
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We need energy, commitment, and courage not to run from our life nor to cover it over with any philosophy—material or spiritual.
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We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?
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Know that the freedom you seek can be found right here where you are.
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To see the preciousness of all things, we must bring our full attention to life
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It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can't close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
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Whatever you believe cosmologically, we all know the tears of the world. We each carry a certain measure of those tears in our hearts.
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How well we have learned to let go
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The goal of practice is always to keep our beginner's mind.
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This life is a test-it is only a test. If it had been an actual life, you would have received further instructions on where to go and what to do. Remember, this life is only a test.
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Everybody needs to take some time, in some way, to quiet themselves and really listen to their heart.
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The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
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The trouble is that you think you have time.
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All of spiritual practice is a matter of relationship: to ourselves, to others, to life's situations.
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Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions create problems. Considered responses bring peace. With a peaceful heart whatever happens can be met with wisdom...Peace is not weak it is unshakable.
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Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is the reality of liberation that we can experience, sometimes in a moment and sometimes in transformative ways that change our entire life
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Even the most exalted states and the most exceptional spiritual accomplishments are unimportant if we cannot be happy in the most basic and ordinary ways, if we cannot touch one another and the life we have been given with our hearts.
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An honorable spiritual practice recognizes the losses we have suffered, tells our story, and sheds our tears to free us from the past.
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When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.
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